How do you keep track of Michigan's schedules?
Do you print one out and put it on your fridge or wall?
Do you have it saved to your phone calendar?
Do you just remember it? Or are you go with the flow guy and look it up on the interwebs when you're stumped on who we're playing on November 9th, 2019?
Very curious to do this informal straw poll of mgoblog.
My method:
I used to make out a paper Michigan Football schedule with crayons and colored pencils when I was a small child and taped it to my wall. That practice eventually turned into me making schedules for all Michigan teams on Paint and then printing them out and posting them up. I write down the results after the games on the schedules and as a result of that I know when every game is and what time it is. When it's tournament time I print out the brackets and post them just below the schedule.
This is from just before last season began.
And during the NCAA Tournament-
How do I keep track of the schedule? I use a schedule.
And sometimes I forget, so I miss many a weeknight basketball game or something, but life goes on.
One comes with my season tickets and I put it on the fridge.
This sight does a preview and a podcast for every football game.
This sight also does a preview for every basketball game.
But what if your eye site isn't good?
I think you meant, "I sea what you did there."
I just show up at the Big House every Saturday hoping there is a game. Actually I print one out and tape it to the wall next to my desk.
I am waiting for someone to say that they write the schedule out, tape it to their forehead, take a selfie and post it as wallpaper on their phone.
I might try that, thanks.
I knew this had to be WD.
I use MgoBlue.com. I can't attend many events since I live in Florida, so the television is my option.
The OP is fine by me. It's interesting to read what other folks do. I don't get the one downvote for him so I offset it with an upvote.
Insulting WD is a tired and inappropriate habit of more than a handful around here. (For the record, I don’t think east quad is being insulting - I thought the exact same thing that this had to be WD). WD is probably the most devoted Michigan fan I have ever ‘met’ on the blog. He provides all sorts of useful updates, recaps, and other information for all sports - particularly specializing in the non-revenue sports that no one else reports. I find his input to be invaluable, and I am an unabashed supporter of him/ the content and information that he regularly brings.
I was never quite sure about Indy Pete's true identity until now.
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i have been called much worse!
Honestly, if I were truly running both of these accounts, I would both deserve major credit and need major intervention at the same time.
I love WD. Pure Michigan. All M, all the time.
At least you get every bowl game we’ve ever played in ever.
I flip to mgoblue.com or use the ESPN app to check things I'm not familiar with. The football schedule is pretty much just memory, but other things may take a glance. It's not worth taking more seriously than that--the games happen when they happen, and there's always talk on this site and social media about them in plenty of time to figure out when they occur.
Football schedule is the only one I can fully memorize. MBB is just too long unless the regular season is nearing its end.
Basketball and Football are the only two I take an active interest in. I'll watch hockey from time to time and the march through the WS was the first time I've watched baseball.
Football games go on my personal digital calendar. For basketball I rely on the ESPN app to remind me about upcoming games.
I check Mgoblog 69 times a day and thusly am always appraised of when to expect a match in any of the major sports likely to be viewable from Italy.
69. Nice!
:-) perv.
Would you say that you typically would have checked 69 times by 4:20?
Interwebz* now. When I was in school, I used the schedules they would give out at, I believe, the Union.
* And if you're in a situation like me, who doesn't watch sporting events until after sundown, I also look up the sundown times to know when to flick on the TV set.
Google has calendars for football and basketball that can integrate into Google Calendar if you use their stuff
- In Google Calendar, head up to the gear icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
- Select Add Calendars tab at the top of the screen > Browse calendar of interest > Sports.
- Select the sport you’d like, the league, and then the team.
- Click Subscribe
Yup, thats what I did. Super convenient and you only have to do it once in your life as long as the university and you still use google calendar
Thanks. Living in Brittany, the layout/categories aren't the same. So it took me about 30 min to figure it out. Now all is set for the season.
Very carefully!
Also, I use twitter, since both the football and basketball handles post lots of info about each game before they happen. I've already thoroughly got brain worms so the extra time on the website doesn't hurt none.
For football & basketball I use Google Calendar's calendars of interest, which allows you to add these schedules to your Google Calendar with a few clicks. I don't care enough about other sports to have them on my calendar but will sometimes add big hockey games I want to watch manually. I think the official mgoblue.com used to offer "add to calendar" but I haven't checked in a few years.
Looks like they do - see example here: https://mgoblue.com/schedule.aspx?schedule=472 powered by something called Stanza and lets you integrate with most standard calendar platforms.
Direct link to Football Calendar integration if anyone wants it:
Direct link to Basketball Calendar
Football
https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/schedule/_/id/130/michigan-wolverines
Basketball
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/130/season/2019
Always updated for free.
Well, for the most part they play on Saturdays. The rest of the details can be found on the internet.
Set it as my phone wallpaper when they come out with it.
I click on "Useful Stuff" above, just below the banner.
i Have outlook 365 on my phone. In the calendar settings, select team and boom...
I use the one in the season ticket package. I also use the iPhone calendar with a Wednesday reminder to schedule a early out of work on Friday.
I edit college sports highlights so I need to know not only Michigans Football/Basketball schedule but about 50% of the leagues schedules. I just use google sheets for this
I take my True Value wall calendar from Stadium Hardware and start writing my three competing activities and then try to figure out what gets top priority when there are conflicts. First is singing with the Choral Union - practice every Monday, then performances, dress rehearsals (this spring 6 out of 7 days in Detroit doing Carmina Burana). Then I enter my ushering gigs for University Musical Society - usually about 1.5 days per week - dance and theatre at Power Center, Orchestral stuff at Hill, various things at the Mich. Theatre. Finally I enter all the Michigan sporting events Football, M- B-ball, Hockey, Men’s and Women’s soccer that I work for the Athletic Department. Then I have to pick and choose when I have double or triple bookings- - see Chick Corea or exh. Hockey against Windsor, the NY Philharmonic or Rutger basketball. Sometimes I have to get a little creative in asking for substitutes or to be taken off a given schedule. Needless to say my falls, winters and springs are quite busy.
Sure sounds like a pretty consuming schedule. Thanks for sharing.
O Fortuna!, what a schedule!
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I only watch CFB regular season games. I follow the results of some of the other UM sports (mostly MBB, hockey, baseball and softball), but don’t want to devote too much boob tube time actually watching. For CFB, I just manually enter the UM schedule into my iPhone calendar app. Works for me.
Sorry for the double post.
I just get texts from friends asking me “what’s wrong with your team?” And that reminds me to tune in.
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You seem to be one of the only ones who feels that way.